Clavus auriculifera

Clavus auriculifera
Drawing of Clavus auriculifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Clavus
Species: C. auriculifera
Binomial name
Clavus auriculifera
Lamarck
Synonyms

Drillia auriculifera Lamarck

Clavus auriculifera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1] [2]

This species needs further investigation (species inquerenda)

Description

The shell is white, with a broad chestnut band below the periphery. The tuberculations of the periphery are often long, spinose. There is usually a revolving row of nodules below the middle of the body whorl. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along the Aldabra Atoll and in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines.

References

  1. Clavus auriculifera Lamarck.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 September 2011.
  2. P. Bouchet, Yu. I. Kantor, A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
  3. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI, p. 185; 1884 (described as Drillia auricilufera, section Clavus)

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